Independence Day
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This novel, who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Faulkner Prize, is one of the most important in modern American and world literature. The existential chronicle, almost permanent, about several days from the life of an ordinary person, whose share has fallen and ordinary happiness, and ordinary grief and who is trying to understand himself, the structure of its existence, to comprehend the meaning of their own being and being of the country. Here, cynical irony goes hand in hand with a trembling and almost naive hope. Frank Basquebus steps in life, as if she is a stretched rope, and he is an inept cabled. He goes to the endless and at the same time rapid Odyssey, ridiculous and bitter, in order to cleanse his consciousness from the layers of empty, to get to the very core of himself. Richard Ford created an amazing image of an image that causes sympathy, rejection, rage, sympathy, contempt and admiration. "Independence Day" is a great novel of our time.
This novel, covering some three days, is nothing more than the story of the entire twentieth century. Amazing intimate epic.
The Times
This novel Ford secured the reputation of the most significant voice of his generation.
New York Times
The best American novel over many years. A real masterpiece. John Banville, Guardian
Each dialogue here explodes with magic, every patterned, endless phrase is fraught with a surprise. "Independence Day" is a deep and strict analysis, fed with exquisitely filigree veneration. The pride of American literature.
The New York Review of Books
Great American literature has always been, for the most part, the literature of the great American guys: Ishmael, Huck Finn, Nathaniel Bampo, Martin Eden. And all of them are the exact opposite of the new great hero - Frank Baskub. With pursuit of incredible adventures, he contrasts a slow movement to awareness of himself, a tent under the starry sky - the stunted comfort of typical housing, and hunting for whales - real estate trade. Nevertheless, Frank is just as great in his romanticism, rejecting simple paths, he rushes at his entire speed to his old car to the unknown and incomprehensible to himself.
New Republic
A novel about the norm and its impossibility, about how easily reality breaks and how difficult, almost unrealistic, and ultimately even does not need to be restored. And also - about loneliness as the essence of American life.
Artem Lipatov, Izvestia
Ford is interested in what turns our almost random actions into rock, where the possibility of our own decisions ends and inevitability begins. Ford is a thoughtful, unhurried author who is looking for himself the same thoughtful reader and, contrary to everything, it seems that he still believes in literature as a way to comprehend and even change the world. The Russian reader, brought up by Russian classics, such a position can be very to his liking.
Lisa Birger, The Village
Ford writes about the destructive chaos of everyday life, which puts us before the choice: to restore order and harmony again and again or rush for the illusion of freedom and die. And yes, it inevitably reminds of responsibility - for actions that can forever change the life of people close to us.
Vladimir Gubailovsky, Psychologies
The quiet, even monotonous voice of the narrator is launched, but this calm, thoughtful book is full of amazing and originality of thoughts and even ideas. Truly, a novel that makes you think, think and think.
Entertainment Weekly
This novel, covering some three days, is nothing more than the story of the entire twentieth century. Amazing intimate epic.
The Times
This novel Ford secured the reputation of the most significant voice of his generation.
New York Times
The best American novel over many years. A real masterpiece. John Banville, Guardian
Each dialogue here explodes with magic, every patterned, endless phrase is fraught with a surprise. "Independence Day" is a deep and strict analysis, fed with exquisitely filigree veneration. The pride of American literature.
The New York Review of Books
Great American literature has always been, for the most part, the literature of the great American guys: Ishmael, Huck Finn, Nathaniel Bampo, Martin Eden. And all of them are the exact opposite of the new great hero - Frank Baskub. With pursuit of incredible adventures, he contrasts a slow movement to awareness of himself, a tent under the starry sky - the stunted comfort of typical housing, and hunting for whales - real estate trade. Nevertheless, Frank is just as great in his romanticism, rejecting simple paths, he rushes at his entire speed to his old car to the unknown and incomprehensible to himself.
New Republic
A novel about the norm and its impossibility, about how easily reality breaks and how difficult, almost unrealistic, and ultimately even does not need to be restored. And also - about loneliness as the essence of American life.
Artem Lipatov, Izvestia
Ford is interested in what turns our almost random actions into rock, where the possibility of our own decisions ends and inevitability begins. Ford is a thoughtful, unhurried author who is looking for himself the same thoughtful reader and, contrary to everything, it seems that he still believes in literature as a way to comprehend and even change the world. The Russian reader, brought up by Russian classics, such a position can be very to his liking.
Lisa Birger, The Village
Ford writes about the destructive chaos of everyday life, which puts us before the choice: to restore order and harmony again and again or rush for the illusion of freedom and die. And yes, it inevitably reminds of responsibility - for actions that can forever change the life of people close to us.
Vladimir Gubailovsky, Psychologies
The quiet, even monotonous voice of the narrator is launched, but this calm, thoughtful book is full of amazing and originality of thoughts and even ideas. Truly, a novel that makes you think, think and think.
Entertainment Weekly
Author:
Author:Ford R.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-86471-746-2
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